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September 16th, 2009 Posted in classical music
PR emails usually end up in the mental spam-can. They usually aren’t interesting enough to be read properly, but there’s an angsty sort of guilt associated with scrunching their electrons up and shoving them into the electronic trash. It’s like getting a huge wad of linked pictures from a relative and not quite feeling like looking at them today, or tomorrow, or Thursday — but you know, you’ll get around to it eventually. And there they sit. Mewing plaintively from the inbox, groaning underneath the growing weight of all the more recent emails. And after a few weeks of aging/maturing/stagnating you’ve forgotten the point to the mail, and it’s really old anyway — and then they are much easier to consign to the filing cabinet, in the “vaguely read” section.
Well anyway, I wouldn’t be getting all artsy about emails unless I had a finishing move to perform. I hear you’re supposed to actually have some kind of plan in place when writing. The plan today was to now bring up a PR email which I received and then actually read. Cunning eh? That’s, like, irony (or at least coppery (sorry)).
The email was from the dudes over at WGBH, who are as we do not speak having a competition in which people describe which piece of music originally got them into music. This mostly caught my attention because I actually wanted to do exactly the same thing a while back, and never got organized enough to actually pull it off. Still, perhaps the classical blogging community could have our own online introduction-sharing, online get together.
Perhaps I’ll do mine tomorrow.
